When it comes to a discussion on healing there seems to always be someone with a yeah but story.
Usually their yeah but experience is prefaced with an expression of faith in healing. Yeah I believe, but a lot of people prayed for my aunt Molly and she died. Yeah I believe, but I’ve been praying about this lumbago for years and I still have it. Yeah I believe, but I think I’m gonna go ahead and have that surgery next week anyway.
Yeah but.
In the healing ministry of Jesus I cannot find one yeah but incident.
Everywhere he went where there were sick people they did not leave his presence as they came.
The woman with the well-known issue of blood did not walk away saying, Yeah I was so sure touching his garment would get me healed, but.
Bartimaeus did not stumble away in his darkness muttering, Yeah I sure got Jesus’ attention and really thought he could heal these blind eyes, but.
The leper did not return with his skin stench to his beggars corner lamenting, Yeah I had hoped Jesus would have healed me, but.
I cannot find one instance where the disciples said, Yeah Jesus healed a lot of people today but that one man over there still is deaf.
Unfortunately a lot of believers and even ministers go into a situation requiring healing with a yeah but mindset. That religious, traditional, sacred cow of faith based on an experience of our own or others, that teaching which has come down to us through our Pentecostal loopholed Christianity, too many times affects how they minister in the area of healing. So it has been explained that we do not know the will of God, and we must not oppose the sovereignty of God, as the scholar would like to insert into the discussion.
While there are many scriptures to refute the yeah but excuse, I offer two today.
Hebrews 13:8: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Now that should be enough to undo the veiled unbelief underlying the yeah but response.
But in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word is confirmed so I present one more.
Read 2 Corinthians 1:19 and 20:
19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
May yeah but be replaced with yea and amen in the church of Jesus Christ. Amen. -PJF-
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